It also controls the AC, the language settings for ALL the displays, the Bluetooth links, the WiFi, the GPS including the "phone home" vehicle health reports, the key permissions, and some other misc. stuff.
It's tied into quite a bit.
That said, the car will run if it's disconnected or crashed.
You want Blue Dalmatian or Flower Power to come back?
(Those things were UGLY. The dealer I worked with sold every other iMac from that shipment at retail price. Those two sat around for quite a while, and finally had to be sold at a loss. And they only got one of each.)
Audi doesn't? https://audi.snapon.com/Home.a... (Ok, they outsource their specialty tool business to Snap-On, but that's who sells them to Audi dealers too.)
Look, the reality is that virtually all car manufacturers have a tool sales channel that will sell you the specialty tools you need if you want to work on your own car or set up your own car repair business.
You can't buy an oil filter wrench from the dealer? I mean, I'm not sure why you would unless you had a car with a particularly interesting oil filter, but yes, you can absolutely buy an oil filter wrench from the dealer. Here's a Mercedes one: https://www.mbpartscenter.com/...
That's right, it's a genuine MB OEM oil filter wrench. You can go to a MB dealer and buy one, they might have to special order it for you. Not all car manufacturers make their own oil filter wrenches, in fact most don't. But the ones that do will cheerfully sell them to you.
Want to buy Ford's tools? You can get them from a dealer, or you can get them from their official site here: https://rotunda.service-soluti... You can buy (ridiculously expensive, but it's there) access to the diagnostic and documentation system here: https://www.motorcraftservice....
Yeah, the one guy I personally know who has a Model S also has a very large garage, with a lot of cars in it. They're all interesting cars, including a few that have been in movies.
But most of the time if I'm actually interested in knowing what time it is, I've either got it in the upper right corner of my computer screen or just off to my right on the car's center screen.
Well, I'm not convinced they're doing anything right.
They used to have v6 provisioned on my business router. It's gone now. No idea why, I didn't tell them to do that.
Even when it was, they didn't seem to have v6 addresses provisioned as static for my business account. I need to call and yell at them, but that's such a pain in the ass.
Note that it's a business account, not a residential account. I needed v4 statics, still do. IPv6 is less critical for me right now, but it would be nice if it worked.
I'd actually discovered this issue about three weeks ago, thought I was maybe going nuts.
My 6+ was not running as long as I liked on a charge, so I changed the battery. I'd noticed it was slower after a recent update, I thought it wasn't handling the new software well. With the new battery, it immediately got significantly faster.
I'd been contemplating replacing it, but I always make sure my old devices go to good homes, so the battery replacement made sense even if I still replace the iPhone.
You can skip taking off the screen, so it's only 4 screws and a couple pieces of adhesive to pull. It's about as simple as anything inside a modern device gets.
I haven't bought a printer in forever, I think the last one I bought was in the early '90s. I have been handed dozens over the years, I've managed to give most of them away, but I've still got quite a few. Ask around, somebody you know probably has a stack of color lasers. I know I do.
Every time I've tried to talk somebody into taking one lately, they've turned down a free printer. And we're not talking junk, the inkjets go straight to recycling, I don't even bother. Brother MFC-9840s, HP 4000s, that sort of thing I keep, but nobody wants one. I only need 4 or 5 printers myself, just so I don't have to walk to another room to pick up a printout if I feel lazy that day.
Seriously, ask around. Somebody you know probably has extras.
If you live somewhere electricity is priced differently by time of day, having a clock on your dryer could be a feature that's very important to you.
But I'd prefer a dryer with no knobs at all. Nope, just a touchscreen for me, thanks.
Actually, a dryer is a perfect case for a smart appliance. Programmable start times, alerts on my phone when things are dry, alerts if there are any temperature anomalies, alerts if there are any malfunctions, maybe even programmable completion times, the dryer could do an initial dampness, composition, and weight assessment of the load and calculate how long it'll take to finish, and you wake up to freshly dried and warm pants on a cold morning.
And in a way, an analog cassette is already somewhat copy protected, the copy is always going to sound crappier than the original, and it's going to get worse with every analog copy generation.
That's not a problem with CDs, that's a problem with idiot producers.
You can make just as much of a compression mess engineering a record as you can with a CD, and you'll get all the downsides of records to go along with it.
No, I'm afraid 8-track has had a bit of a comeback too. There are actually articles online praising its "warmer tape sound" and such silliness. Enthusiasts have sites that show how to change the now-disintegrated foam pads in your "classic" 8-track cartridges and such things. I think somebody even released a new album on 8-track at some point in the last few years.
It's insanity. I mean, I get playing with old tech sometimes just for the fun of it or for historic preservation, but pretending cassette or 8-track aren't crap is just silly.
I'm one of those "it doesn't happen to me" guys, which is great for me.
But it's still annoying and silly. There's no reason for it.
The fix is simple, year-round DST. If the schoolkids standing at the bus stop in the dark is a problem, then you're starting school too early anyway. Stop doing that. If the farmer is milking cows according to the clock, the farmer is doing it wrong. The only sane thing to do is make next spring's changeover the last one ever, abandon "standard" time permanently.
If anything, the changeover always went the wrong way anyway. Fall forward and spring back would make much more sense to me, I'd rather not have it dark when I finish working. So yeah, if we're going to do a changeover, it should be DST in the summer and DDST in the winter.
Exactly. I'm not driving a full electric yet, but I used no gasoline today, and I'm charging at home from a 20A 120V socket. My car is already fully charged after today's driving.
And it doesn't take 10 seconds to plug in, it's maybe three if I'm being slow about it..
You say "incorrect" and then give examples of pilot error (switching off the autothrottle while maintaining the rest of the autoland systems) or intentional sabotage.
Google doesn't test just in California, and other companies are testing in lots of states now. GM and Ford are known to be testing in occasionally sunny Michigan, where self-driving cars are no longer required to have a driver.
I strongly suspect you're wrong about accident rates increasing. I'd bet on a precipitous drop once the technology becomes widespread. In any case, we won't have long to wait to see, Tesla is planning on turning on Level 5 in late 2019 in the cars they're shipping now.
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It also controls the AC, the language settings for ALL the displays, the Bluetooth links, the WiFi, the GPS including the "phone home" vehicle health reports, the key permissions, and some other misc. stuff.
It's tied into quite a bit.
That said, the car will run if it's disconnected or crashed.
You want Blue Dalmatian or Flower Power to come back?
(Those things were UGLY. The dealer I worked with sold every other iMac from that shipment at retail price. Those two sat around for quite a while, and finally had to be sold at a loss. And they only got one of each.)
I used to have a neighbor with "ICanHearYouFucking".
Chevrolet doesn't sell tools? https://gmtoolsandequipment.co...
Audi doesn't? https://audi.snapon.com/Home.a... (Ok, they outsource their specialty tool business to Snap-On, but that's who sells them to Audi dealers too.)
Look, the reality is that virtually all car manufacturers have a tool sales channel that will sell you the specialty tools you need if you want to work on your own car or set up your own car repair business.
So why should Apple not be forced to do the same?
You can't buy an oil filter wrench from the dealer? I mean, I'm not sure why you would unless you had a car with a particularly interesting oil filter, but yes, you can absolutely buy an oil filter wrench from the dealer. Here's a Mercedes one: https://www.mbpartscenter.com/...
That's right, it's a genuine MB OEM oil filter wrench. You can go to a MB dealer and buy one, they might have to special order it for you. Not all car manufacturers make their own oil filter wrenches, in fact most don't. But the ones that do will cheerfully sell them to you.
Want to buy Ford's tools? You can get them from a dealer, or you can get them from their official site here: https://rotunda.service-soluti... You can buy (ridiculously expensive, but it's there) access to the diagnostic and documentation system here: https://www.motorcraftservice....
And is female.
Yeah, the one guy I personally know who has a Model S also has a very large garage, with a lot of cars in it. They're all interesting cars, including a few that have been in movies.
And for them, there's the smartwatch.
But most of the time if I'm actually interested in knowing what time it is, I've either got it in the upper right corner of my computer screen or just off to my right on the car's center screen.
Well, I'm not convinced they're doing anything right.
They used to have v6 provisioned on my business router. It's gone now. No idea why, I didn't tell them to do that.
Even when it was, they didn't seem to have v6 addresses provisioned as static for my business account. I need to call and yell at them, but that's such a pain in the ass.
Note that it's a business account, not a residential account. I needed v4 statics, still do. IPv6 is less critical for me right now, but it would be nice if it worked.
I don't care enough about what the time is to need to look at it on my wrist.
And I don't wear a watch. I've got a phone, it's got a clock, a watch is redundant.
I think the pocketwatch people had it right, there's no point in a wristwatch for most people, and they're uncomfortable.
And it does stop the throttling.
I'd actually discovered this issue about three weeks ago, thought I was maybe going nuts.
My 6+ was not running as long as I liked on a charge, so I changed the battery. I'd noticed it was slower after a recent update, I thought it wasn't handling the new software well. With the new battery, it immediately got significantly faster.
I'd been contemplating replacing it, but I always make sure my old devices go to good homes, so the battery replacement made sense even if I still replace the iPhone.
And they'll fix that for free: https://www.apple.com/support/...
The batteries come with the tools. Step by step instructions here: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/i...
You can skip taking off the screen, so it's only 4 screws and a couple pieces of adhesive to pull. It's about as simple as anything inside a modern device gets.
So buy a battery from Amazon and put it in yourself.
Apple isn't stopping you.
The instructions are on iFixit. They'll even sell you a battery.
I haven't bought a printer in forever, I think the last one I bought was in the early '90s. I have been handed dozens over the years, I've managed to give most of them away, but I've still got quite a few. Ask around, somebody you know probably has a stack of color lasers. I know I do.
Every time I've tried to talk somebody into taking one lately, they've turned down a free printer. And we're not talking junk, the inkjets go straight to recycling, I don't even bother. Brother MFC-9840s, HP 4000s, that sort of thing I keep, but nobody wants one. I only need 4 or 5 printers myself, just so I don't have to walk to another room to pick up a printout if I feel lazy that day.
Seriously, ask around. Somebody you know probably has extras.
If you live somewhere electricity is priced differently by time of day, having a clock on your dryer could be a feature that's very important to you.
But I'd prefer a dryer with no knobs at all. Nope, just a touchscreen for me, thanks.
Actually, a dryer is a perfect case for a smart appliance. Programmable start times, alerts on my phone when things are dry, alerts if there are any temperature anomalies, alerts if there are any malfunctions, maybe even programmable completion times, the dryer could do an initial dampness, composition, and weight assessment of the load and calculate how long it'll take to finish, and you wake up to freshly dried and warm pants on a cold morning.
You brought it up.
And in a way, an analog cassette is already somewhat copy protected, the copy is always going to sound crappier than the original, and it's going to get worse with every analog copy generation.
That's not a problem with CDs, that's a problem with idiot producers.
You can make just as much of a compression mess engineering a record as you can with a CD, and you'll get all the downsides of records to go along with it.
No, I'm afraid 8-track has had a bit of a comeback too. There are actually articles online praising its "warmer tape sound" and such silliness. Enthusiasts have sites that show how to change the now-disintegrated foam pads in your "classic" 8-track cartridges and such things. I think somebody even released a new album on 8-track at some point in the last few years.
It's insanity. I mean, I get playing with old tech sometimes just for the fun of it or for historic preservation, but pretending cassette or 8-track aren't crap is just silly.
Today's chips are big enough to losslessly buffer most people's entire music collection. So yeah, it's beyond solved.
I'm one of those "it doesn't happen to me" guys, which is great for me.
But it's still annoying and silly. There's no reason for it.
The fix is simple, year-round DST. If the schoolkids standing at the bus stop in the dark is a problem, then you're starting school too early anyway. Stop doing that. If the farmer is milking cows according to the clock, the farmer is doing it wrong. The only sane thing to do is make next spring's changeover the last one ever, abandon "standard" time permanently.
If anything, the changeover always went the wrong way anyway. Fall forward and spring back would make much more sense to me, I'd rather not have it dark when I finish working. So yeah, if we're going to do a changeover, it should be DST in the summer and DDST in the winter.
But yeah, let's just dump it. DST year round.
Exactly. I'm not driving a full electric yet, but I used no gasoline today, and I'm charging at home from a 20A 120V socket. My car is already fully charged after today's driving.
And it doesn't take 10 seconds to plug in, it's maybe three if I'm being slow about it..
It's too bad that's completely untrue.
Weird. I've only had two LED bulb failures, both of them replaced under warranty.
You say "incorrect" and then give examples of pilot error (switching off the autothrottle while maintaining the rest of the autoland systems) or intentional sabotage.
Google doesn't test just in California, and other companies are testing in lots of states now. GM and Ford are known to be testing in occasionally sunny Michigan, where self-driving cars are no longer required to have a driver.
I strongly suspect you're wrong about accident rates increasing. I'd bet on a precipitous drop once the technology becomes widespread. In any case, we won't have long to wait to see, Tesla is planning on turning on Level 5 in late 2019 in the cars they're shipping now.